Agile Edmonton

[ June 2, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, June 2nd at noon.

Dynamic Test Plans
Test plans are useful for describing the current state of testing and communicating that information to others. The downside is that if they are not updated regularly, they fail to provide accurate information. If the information is [...]

[ May 5, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, May 5th at noon.

Leveraging GIT in the Enterprise
Git was born from the need to better manage large open source projects. How is integrity of the repository ensured? How easy is it to start working with it? How much faster is it than the rest [...]

[ April 7, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 7th at noon.

Software Manufacturing

Why does it seem so much easier to manufacture physical things than it does to manufacture software? There seems to be a lot of lessons that the manufacturing industry learned long ago that we in the software industry struggle with. [...]

[ March 3, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, March 3rd at noon.

What is Velocity?

Velocity is a project’s or team’s rate of progress. How does your project calculate Velocity?

Should a team focus on increasing Velocity? Or getting better at being Done? What should a team do if their velocity continues to [...]

[ February 3, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 3rd at noon.

Knowing Your Rate of Discovery
Discovered work is all those little surprises that pop up during the course of a sprint and that appear to disrupt the planned work. My premise in this talk is that by tracking and understanding how much [...]

[ January 6, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 6th at noon.

A Framework for Continuous Improvement: Building a Learning Organization
In this presentation I discuss what continuous improvement is and why it is critical in today’s world, then introduce the framework: a five-stage model that covers the entire life-cycle of an improvement. I [...]

[ December 2, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 2nd at noon.

The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Agile methods emphasize trust, empowerment, and collaboration—moving us away from command and control project management to harness the passion, creativity, and enthusiasm of the team. In established organizations, success with agile practices hinges [...]

[ November 4, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, November 4th at noon.

PAS: Scaling Agile – A real life experience

PAS was a joint venture development initiative by 4 major oil and gas companies and CGI. Devon, Encana, Husky and Talisman joined with CGI to develop a new Production and Revenue Application. Each company [...]

[ October 27, 2009; 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] On Tuesday, October 27th, Agile Edmonton is having it’s second social night at Hudson’s Taphouse in downtown Edmonton. Thanks to TEK Systems and Hudsons Tap House for sponsoring the event.

We’ll get started at Hudson’s at 5:30. See you there.

[ October 7, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, October 7th at noon.

Case Study: Implementing Agile on a Large Project

Implementing Agile methods on a large project can be extremely difficult.  There can be significant overhead involved in team communication along with a lack of “big picture” perspective.  This gets even more challenging when [...]